Poll: Most voters are unfamiliar with Solyndra

posted at 7:11 pm on October 3, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

Not that it’s even remotely a surprise that our many low-information voters aren’t familiar with the federally-backed and subsequently failed solar-panel manufacturer and that they don’t tend to keep up with the minutiae of such sagas of epic government failure, but Solyndra is just so thoroughly representative of the utter hubris of the federal government picking economic winners and losers and presuming to know what’s good for us, that the actual numbers are like a dagger straight to my heart. From The Hill:

The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 58 percent of registered voters are unaware or unsure of the company, which went bankrupt in 2011 after receiving an Energy Department loan guarantee in 2009 to manufacture advanced solar panels.

Twenty-five percent of respondents had a negative view of Solyndra, 15 percent were neutral and just 2 percent held a positive view on the subect, according to the survey conducted in late September. …

The company’s collapse in late August of 2011, which put more than 1,000 people out of work, was an embarrassment for the White House. Obama had personally visited Solyndra in 2010 to cast it as an example of the emerging green economy.

Notice that of the respondents who did say they were aware of Solyndra’s story, pretty much nobody claimed to have a positive view of the affair. It can be tough to break off from the herd when our everyday lives are so roundly and subliminally infiltrated with “green-is-always-and-necessarily-good” vibes from so many sources (which is exactly what the Obama administration is preying upon, by the way), but I can’t help feeling that if more voters were aware of, maybe not even Solyndra specifically, but of more of the consequences of the Obama administration’s generally blasé attitude towards our tax dollars, all these presidential polls wouldn’t be quite so dang close.

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Remember over the summer when Mitt Romney had the press conference in front of the empty Solyndra building and we got all excited about how aggressive he was going to be against Obama? Those were good times.

If we are going to have stupid “stimulus” programs wouldn’t it have been smarter (relative term) to just give every citizen a million dollars? It would have been cheaper and actually produced more “stimulus”.

And that the American people could be so woefully uniformed about something like Solyndra, and where their tax dollars were utterly and apologetically wasted, is a massive indictment of the lack of journalistic integrity of the main stream media.

Their mandate is to inform. Who, What, When, Where, and Why. They have failed in that mandate and should be fired, from executive offices down to those who’s job it is to write the reports or copy, those who read the copy on air, and replaced with those who understand the meaning of the terms ‘objectivity’ and ‘journalistic integrity’.

If they wish to be no more than op-ed publications or on air entities, they should say so and stay out of news and reporting altogether.

Hmmm…I know!!!! Let’s invent some sort of television program that can be broadcast to every home…we could call it the nightly news and everyone would know that they can tune in every night and find out what is important to the public.

No sruprise. Most people probably don’t know anything about Fast & Furious, or Benghazi (other than someone was killed and it’s in Africa,) or what Obamacare is all about, or heck, who their rep and senators are.

How on earth would anyone know what Solyndra is? Has anyone in the press ever typed the word on their website or uttered the word live on the news?

The Press/Obama campaign strategy is simple and effective: everyone who watches Fox is already voting for Romney…no one else will hear a single word about the myriad failures of the Obama farce/administration. Not one word.

This is how propaganda works, and we have a monolithic media which is nearly 100% in unison about effecting this program.

If only Mitt had some opportunity to tell millions of voters about Solyndra, in a situation in which every major television network will be carrying his statements live ….

But seriously, this just proves that Mitt can’t say, “What about Solyndra” and expect undecided voters to know what he is talking about. The good news is that the more he explains Solyndra, the worse it makes the Obama administration look.

but I can’t help feeling that if more voters were aware of, maybe not even Solyndra specifically, but of more of the consequences of the Obama administration’s generally blasé attitude towards our tax dollars, all these presidential polls wouldn’t be quite so dang close.

Too bad the GOP nominated someone who is committed to keeping the people uninformed (for some unfathomable reason) of what Obama’s policies are and how they have harmed the economy.

Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Libya, there are so many things most voters know nothing about because the Fifth Column Treasonous Media has hidden those things and lied to the American Peoples. Obama’s chickens are coming home to roost.

When it comes to the Fifth Column Treasonous Media, Stout Hemp Rope, Streetlamps, and Some assembly required is something every American Citizen should at least have a passing familiarity with.

I wonder how many people know that Sarah Palin’s daughter has an out of wedlock kid. Or that Romney put a dog on his car; or may have cut some kid’s hair. I’m glad the traditional media knows what’s really important, and embargoes stories about things nobody cares about, such as catastrophic economic and foreign policy (including gun-running to narcoterrorist groups in Mexico).

The Notorious G.O.P on October 3, 2012 at 7:33 PM
rplat on October 3, 2012 at 7:36 PM

What in God’s name is wrong with you guys? Wake the hell up, not even a fraction of a percent of the population is a information/political junky. IT ISN’T THEIR FAULT that they don’t know these things, it’s the damned Fifth Column Treasonous Media’s fault for intentionally deceiving them.

The average American non-information/political junky doesn’t know that the Fifth Column Treasonous Media has been deceiving them they are to damned busy trying to pay their mortgages, feed their families and keep up with their kids social lives.

Their priorities aren’t messed up, they know what is important, it you guys who live breath and dream politics and information who are screwed up.

The majority of American citizens are good decent hard working honest people, people who made the understandable mistake of trusting the Fifth Column Treasonous Media to keep them informed in an honest accurate manner.

If you want to blame anyone, pull your heads out of your asses and recognize who it was that made the intentional decision to deceive your fellow citizens.

Most importantly keep this in mind, if you know anyone who the Fifth Column Treasonous Media has deceived, ask yourself why the hell haven’t you taken the time to correct that situation. You are as much to blame as the damned Fifth Column Treasonous Media if you haven’t informed those around you.

I’m surprised it’s even 58%…probably because Jon Stewart covered it. Of course, he managed to use this scam/scandal as a way to attack Fox News and Republicans and minimize the sleaziness of the whole thing:

Hmmm…I know!!!! Let’s invent some sort of television program that can be broadcast to every home…we could call it the nightly news and everyone would know that they can tune in every night and find out what is important to the public.

The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows that 58 percent of registered voters are unaware or unsure of the company, which went bankrupt in 2011 after receiving an Energy Department loan guarantee in 2009 to manufacture advanced solar panels.

WHO did the NBC/WSJ people contact? They’re own customers? If so, isn’t that an indictment of NBC and WSJ?

This is where the MSM’s blackout on Obama scandals and bad news is *really* going to come back to bite them.

If people remembered hearing about Solyndra two years ago… it would be old news. Since they haven’t, it’s all new and interesting now.

I expect we’ll be seeing more and more of these little bombs presented over the next month.

It will be interesting to see which of President Obama’s catastrophic failures in foreign policy will be featured at the next debate. Obviously, the Middle East will be prominent, but I’d be surprised if it ends there. How many undecided voters have heard about Obama’s “live microphone” comment to Putin?

This is one of the few subjects Romney didn’t handle as well as he could have. He mentioned Solyndra but didn’t connect the dots for people — he assumed people already knew of the scandal.

Next time he needs to spell it out more clearly — explain succinctly how this was an unviable company, given taxpayer dollars for reasons of political connections, in which the administration overruled the assessments of the financial analysts, and the company went down and took taxpayer $ with them. People need to have the dots filled in.